RACAN: SDP HAS NOT YET DISCUSSED ELECTORAL SLATES

ZAGREB, July 28 (Hina) - "The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has not at all discussed a joint list of candidates with the Istrian Democratic Assembly in the eighth electoral unit. After we do some research we will define proposal for each electoral unit," Croatian Prime Minister and SDP president Ivica Racan said Monday evening after a session of his party's presidency. #L# Racan said media were speculation about a lot of this lately, because they have nothing to write about. "The same thing happened with my statement about tourism in Istria, which has been entirely misinterpreted," said the prime minister. He said that data on the tourist season would be presented at a government session on Wednesday, adding that the results were not disastrous at all. Tonight's session of the SDP presidency was also attended by representatives of the city branch of the SDP Zdravko Tomac and Vlasta Pavic. Racan and Tomac said there were no misunderstandings at the meeting and that Tomac's recent conflict with the president of the party's head committee, Gorana Sobol, was not discussed. The conflict broke out after Sobol said that it was tasteless to use (Zagreb deputy mayor Milan) Bandic, who is sick, for the success at the elections. (hina) it